Book Review: The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by Izumi Shimada

S. Arbeláez
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Izumi Shimada, ed. The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 392. $75.00; ISBN: 978-0-292-76079-0. The Inka Empire or Tawantinsuyu (the Quechua name for the “realm of four parts”) was the largest political system to develop in the New World. Tawantinsuyu extended over 2,000,000 square kilometers and encompassed at least 86 ethnic groups from Argentina and Chile to the current border between Ecuador and Colombia. Intriguingly, the Inka ruled their empire without wheeled technologies, markets, money, or phonetic writing systems. Instead, they kept the records of the empire in a complex system of knotted strings called khipus . For that reason, much of what we know of this interesting polity comes from post-conquest sources. This breathtaking collaborative volume, edited by Izumi Shimada, seeks to offer a holistic vision of the Inka empire, placing different disciplines, methods, sources, and perspectives in dialogue. It includes 19 chapters by 23 authors that consider linguistic and genetic evidence along with material culture and historical documents to study Inka origins, imperial infrastructure, administrative strategies, agricultural technology, accounting, architecture and landscape intervention, and political organization, among other aspects. The volume is divided into five parts, prefaced by a useful introductory chapter by Shimada that lays out the book’s aims and …
书评:印加帝国:一个多学科的方法,岛田泉编辑
泉岛田编:《印加帝国:多学科方法》。奥斯汀:德克萨斯大学出版社,2015。392页。75.00美元;ISBN: 978-0-292-76079-0。印卡帝国(Tawantinsuyu,克丘亚语,意为“四部分王国”)是新大陆上发展起来的最大的政治体系。tawaninsuyu延伸超过200万平方公里,包括至少86个民族,从阿根廷和智利到厄瓜多尔和哥伦比亚之间的边界。有趣的是,印卡人统治他们的帝国时没有轮式技术、市场、货币或语音书写系统。相反,他们把帝国的记录保存在一个复杂的系统中,这个系统被称为khipus。出于这个原因,我们对这个有趣政体的了解大多来自于征服后的资料。由Izumi Shimada编辑的这本令人惊叹的合作书,试图提供印加帝国的整体视野,将不同的学科,方法,来源和观点置于对话中。它包括由23位作者撰写的19章,考虑了语言和遗传证据以及物质文化和历史文献,以研究印卡人的起源,帝国基础设施,行政战略,农业技术,会计,建筑和景观干预以及政治组织等方面。这本书分为五个部分,开头是岛田写的一个有用的介绍性章节,阐述了本书的目标和……
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